Home

Add your events

Agenda
Agenda
November 2012 – September 2019 Nov 2012 – Sep 2019
Collapse All Expand All
Nov
15
Thu
Ben Crosland Brass Group @ Lauderdale House
Tickets
Nov 15 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm

with Steve Lodev (keyboards), Steve Waterman & Martin Shaw (tpts,), Mark Nightingale & Barnaby Dickinson (tmbs)

Ben Crosland, acoustic and electric bass player, is based in Yorkshire and assembled this premier-league brass section to realise a commission from the 2011 Marsden Jazz Festival, inspired by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, An Open Place. The compositions are inspired by specific pieces, such as Henry Moore’s Reclining Figures, and Barbara Hepworth’s Family of Man, the whole composition is suffused with the gentle, pastoral quality of the Park. A project like this would be easy meat for a classical brass group, but here the fascination is how some of the most technically-brilliant brassmen of the jazz world preserve the excitement of jazz, spontaneity and creativity without ‘raising the roof’, which in other circumstances they could easily do.

See event website.

Read more
Tags: Highgate Cemetery Marx Talk
May
1
Wed
Marx and the Village Community @ The Chapel at Highgate Cemetery
Tickets
May 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

In this lecture, Professor Gareth Stedman Jones looks at the last decade and a half of Marx’s life, a period in which he effectively gave up further work on Capital and read up instead on the village community and the early history of man. He was interested in particular in the new work on pre-history which developed from the 1860s onwards connecting this with a notion of primitive communism and an epoch in history before patriarchy and political hierarchy.

Professor Gareth Stedman Jones is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University since 1974. He was Professor of Political Science, History Faculty, Cambridge University from 1997 and in 2010 became Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include An End to Poverty? (2004), a long introduction to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (2002), and The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, co-edited with Gregory Claeys, 2011.

He is currently working on an intellectual biography of Marx commissioned by Penguin and a more general work on political thought between the French Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848.

Doors open at 7pm and wine and nibbles will be served. The talk starts promptly at 7.30pm and will last about an hour.

Tickets are non-refundable but, as a courtesy to others, please let us know if you cannot attend.

Read more
Tags: event Highgate Cemetery Marx Talk
Jul
14
Thu
Jess Love: And the Little One Said @ Jacksons Lane
Tickets
Jul 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Combining high-level circus skills with pathos, humour and beauty, Jess Love creates a vision that is at once delicately touching, visually enchanting and heart-warmingly playful. Dark clowning, dirty acrobatics and surreal sideshow feats go hand-in-hand with slapstick, roller-skating, hula hoops, skipping and hopscotch acrobatics – phew! With crafted storytelling and awe inspiring images on a bed of roses and broken glass, it’s so sweet you’ll want to squeal!

“LIVELY AND ENTERTAINING…SERIOUSLY WACKY…EXCITING…CHARISMATIC”★★★★ THE AGE

—

We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

Read more
Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Jacksons Lane Tags: acrobatics adult and the little one said beauty cabaret circus clowning contemporary circus festivals hopscotch horror hula hoop jess love north london pay what you decide performance postcards postcards 16 roller skating sideshow skipping slapstick summer Theatre things to do
Sep
14
Sat
Kirima Uganda Morning at St Michael’s @ St Michael's Church Highgate
Tickets
Sep 14 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

9.30—12:30 Come along any time…
Meet Hamlet and Honest who are visiting us from Uganda
Artwork, by Ugandan children, crafts and coffee for sale
10:00 Chair of Trustees: Alan West
Bishop Hamlet Mbabazi + Honest Wilkins
Founder of the Kirima Primary School and Great Lakes High
School: 20 years of development in SW Uganda and future plans
10:35 Highgate School students
Feedback after Uganda after July 2019 visit to schools
11:00 John Rutherford
News from visit to Kirima & Nyakabungo Primary Schools, Great
Lakes High School. Strategy for the next 10 years.
11:30 Dr. Karen Sennett, Trustee and High School sponsor link
Financing the schools, how can you help?
11:45—12:30 Questions/discussion
Kirima UK Charity Supporting Schools in Uganda

Read more
Tags: Kirima Uganda
November 2012 – September 2019 Nov 2012 – Sep 2019